Women Architects under State Socialism

14.10.2025.

Dr Lidija Butković Mićin participated with a presentation titled “Alternative Sources, Alternative Histories: Researching Women Architects in Socialist Yugoslavia” at the international online symposium “Women Architects under State Socialism”, held on 9 and 10 October 2025 and organized by the Women and Gender in Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design Research Group of the EAHN (European Architectural History Network). More information about the programme is available at the link.

Her participation was the result of research conducted as part of the project “The Right to Housing: The Production of Everyday Living Spaces in Yugoslavia (1945–1991),” carried out at the Institute of Art History from 2025 to 2030 within the Horizon Europe programme, with the support of a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

Presentation of the Book “Aleksander Laslo: Zagreb – Architecture, Architects”

18.09.2026.
On 16 September 2026, the book Aleksander Laslo: Zagreb – Architecture, Architects, edited by Dr Tamara Bjažić Klarin and published by the Institute of Art History in 2025, was presented at the Zagreb Society of Architects. Before a full audience, the introductory remarks were delivered by Dr Petar Prelog, Scientific Advisor and President of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Art History, on behalf of the Director of the Institute of Art History and Academician Dr Katarina Horvat-Levaj. The…
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City Networks in Europe and Beyond

09.09.2026.
Conference participation Lidija Butković Mićin, PhD, Igor Duda, PhD, Mejrema Zatrić Šahović, PhD, Hana Bečeić and Antun Dulibić, members of the research team of the ERC project Housing.Yu – “The Right to Housing: Production of Spaces of Everyday Life in Yugoslavia (1945–1991)”, participated with presentations at the 17th Conference of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH), “City Networks in Europe and Beyond”, held in Barcelona from 2 to 5 September 2026. More information and the conference programme are available…
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Socialism and the Sea

09.09.2026.
Doctoral workshop participation Antun Dulibić, research assistant on the Housing.Yu project, presented the paper “Crossing the Sea: The Conference of Adriatic Cities of Yugoslavia and Italy”, devoted to the Conference of Adriatic Cities of Yugoslavia and Italy (1975–1988) as a form of inter-municipal cooperation across the Cold War divide, and also served on the workshop's organising committee. The workshop was held from 26 to 29 August 2026 at the Faculty of Humanities of Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, organised by…
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Book presentation: “Aleksander Laslo: Zagreb – arhitektura, arhitekti”

08.09.2026.
Public presenation Invitation to the book presentation Aleksander Laslo: Zagreb – architecture, architects INVITATION The Institute of Art History and the Zagreb Society of Architects invite you to the presentation of the book Aleksander Laslo: Zagreb – Architecture, Architects, published by the Institute of Art History in 2025 and edited by Tamara Bjažić Klarin, PhD. The presentation will take place on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, at 6 p.m., at the address Trg bana Josipa Jelačića 3/1, in Zagreb Society of…
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Housing.Yu team on a study trip in London and Stockholm

30.07.2026.
As part of the study trip, members of the research team of the ERC project Housing.Yu – “The right to housing: the production of everyday living space in Yugoslavia (1945-1991)” visited London and Stockholm in the period from July 5 to 15, 2026. The program included guided thematic visits by prof. Ph.D. Miles Glendinning, Professor at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Scottish Center for Heritage Studies across the St. Pancras and Finsbury, author of the book Mass…
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